Keynote Speakers

The Camden Garden Club welcomes the 2025 Expo keynote speakers, Barbara Damrosch and Nancy Harmon Jenkins.

Barbara Damrosch

Barbara has worked professionally in the field of horticulture since 1977. She writes, consults and lectures on gardening, farming and landscaping. She wrote a weekly column for The Washington Post called “A Cook's Garden” and is the author of several gardening books including The Garden Primer,  Theme Gardens, and the Four Season Farm Gardener’s Cookbook.  Barbara was the General Consultant for Taylor's Guide to Garden Design and her writing has been published extensively in national magazines. From 1979 to 1992 she owned and operated her own firm, Barbara Damrosch Landscape Design, in Washington, Connecticut. During the 1990 and 1991 seasons she appeared as  the New England correspondent for the PBS show The Victory Garden. After that, she and her husband,  Eliot Coleman, co-hosted the series Gardening Naturally for The Learning Channel. Currently, Barbara an Eliot own Four Season Farm, an experimental market garden in Harborside, Maine, which produces vegetables year-round, and has become a nationally recognized model of small-scale sustainable agriculture.

Nancy Harmon Jenkins

Nancy grew up on the coast of Maine but couldn’t wait to shake the dust of Camden from from her heels and her travels led her all around the Mediterranean and on to Southeast Asia, China, India, and the Middle East as she came to realize the powerful connection between who we are and what we eat. Nancy Harmon Jenkins is an authority on Mediterranean cuisines, on the Mediterranean diet and its consequences for good health, on extra-virgin olive oil, and (to her own surprise) on ancient Egyptian maritime technology. She is the author of many books, the latest of which is a collaboration with her daughter, Chef Sara Jenkins: The Four Seasons of Pasta. Nancy also appears frequently as a commentator or participant on radio (NPR’s The Splendid Table, Good Food, All Things Considered and has written articles for many publications including  The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Boston Globe, Washington Post, Saveur, Food & Wine, and Bon Appetit.